namesarenotus t1_j41s6zt wrote
Up to 250 watts. No longer will my house need a furnace. This packaged with a 4090 should be integrated into my air handler and WAMMO I got sufficient heat for my winters needs.
BezniaAtWork t1_j43424u wrote
My heat pump had a capacitor blow the night before we had those horrible freezing temps around Christmas hitting -40 wind chill, and -20F real temps. GF and I just stayed in our office with our gaming rigs both running software in the background using the GPU a 80-100% and that office stayed >70F the whole time. Living room had frost on the interior walls, which was neat!
namesarenotus t1_j439lfh wrote
Literally a life saver. Glad you got through the freezing weather.
BezniaAtWork t1_j43buek wrote
Yeah it was a bit scary, but I also am in a condo building with 12 other units in the same structure, so while around the doors and windows it was cold, in the interior of the house I believe the lowest it dipped that week was 54. Growing up, my dad used to not turn on the heat until it dipped below 58 in the house so I'm no stranger to wearing 2 pairs of pants, 2 long shirts, a hoodie, and 2 pairs of socks around the house.
hopsgrapesgrains t1_j45kf24 wrote
58 is a normal temp to have heat set at. Hah
koolaidisthestuff t1_j43o7ig wrote
My m1 MacBook Air froze along with me.
UnnamedStaplesDrone t1_j453x9f wrote
stupid sexy efficient m1
Overcriticalengineer t1_j441ctt wrote
I read that as you had Microsoft Office open, and it still made sense.
stackjr t1_j44qyx3 wrote
Or Chrome with three tabs.
cyrixlord t1_j44e2h1 wrote
my grow lights add +30f on those cold nights. spending a night in the greenhouse is such a wonderful experience (seriously!)
Randomthought5678 t1_j440h1n wrote
Honestly that's completely insane. Wow. Care to share what you've got in those rigs? Can the heat pump keep up with the excess heat in the summertime?
BezniaAtWork t1_j4gdwzl wrote
Haha they're both running RTX 3080s. It typically doesn't get crazy hot in the summer here in Ohio except for a couple weeks, so I tend to open all of the windows in the house and have fans running to keep it cool. On the very hot days in the 90s, I'll kick on the AC and it does fine. I don't keep any temperature sensors in or around the office so while the rest of the house will be about 72, it stays in the upper 70s in the office.
lordofbitterdrinks t1_j44axar wrote
From 2012 to like 2016 I heated my house every year with bitcoin and altcoin miners.
Ok_Ninja_1602 t1_j44k2r6 wrote
Same, wish I saved all the coin from ltcrabbit.
Nanaremilamina t1_j45ymwe wrote
Damn it global warming
azurleaf t1_j41vdyj wrote
My 3080 running Folding@Home was basically my heater for a bit a while back.
Rain1dog t1_j421d4f wrote
I miss seeing SETI running on my dads P3 on a CRT as a kid. Walking past the office at 2am hearing the cpu making its noises, lights on the modem flashing, having the urge to fire up TFC or CS1.6 and dick around on well or 2Fort.
God I fucking miss those days.
TheSeek3r_ t1_j42leka wrote
Maaaan, I miss well and 2fort. Those were the days!
Rain1dog t1_j42lx1p wrote
Indeed they were! Loved setting up a sentry at the bottom of our base with a dispenser in the hallway leading down.
Or playing as a spy on the snipers perch on 2Fort.
Or as a medic spamming infection at a spawn location infecting everyone!! Haha, guaranteed way of having others personally hunting you down.
The days of Half-Life, Unreal, Tribes, Quake, Doom, EverQuest, Asheron’s Call, Dark age of Camelot, City of Hero’s, Earth and Beyond were so much fun!
Drone314 t1_j42vlws wrote
>Tribes
Oh man, those were the days. 2 best days ever, the day I brought home a 3DFX graphics card and the day I got cable internet. Ping's and frames so good they kicked you thinking you were a cheater.
Rain1dog t1_j42wgp7 wrote
Ha! The day I got the 3DFX and saw Quake II IN 3D blew my mind. How the world was in actual 3D. Seeing that effect for the first few times was so satisfying.
I still remember the first day we got Cox cable instead of Compuserve because I had been trying to download the trailer for Castlevania 64 from Ign64. I was floored the 30mb clip took 27 seconds instead of hours.
Then walking past my Dad’s office around 2am seeing SETI running on the Gateway p3 makes me nostalgic. Hearing the cpu make its noise, seeing the lights flicker off the walls from the modem…
Such great times!
poostew t1_j44x5o2 wrote
Yeah, absolutely mind blowing to be able to click on a link and it just loaded instead of taking minutes. It was like switching to a SSD for the first time but 1000x more insane. The world at my fingertips INSTANTLY.
Mario 64 was my biggest mind blowing experience graphically. Grand Theft Auto in 3D was a generational leap as well that I haven't really experienced since.
UglyInThMorning t1_j431gie wrote
VGS
sillypicture t1_j4651fs wrote
Moneybags with a P3. I had to make do with my pentium 380 MHz.
xShooK t1_j44io86 wrote
Grabbed 3 antminers when they released first edition. Those mining rigs plus 2 gaming pcs in the dining room between two rooms kept it fairly toasty with fans blowing to rooms.
double_turd t1_j44ticg wrote
Sure, bc you weren’t mining crypto
azurleaf t1_j44ww7u wrote
3080 LHR can't mine crypto for shit lol.
Yukondano2 t1_j41ydws wrote
Funnily enough that not a bad idea. Almost all power for a pc is turned into heat, if you need to heat a home anyways you might as well.
Zncon t1_j43ofo2 wrote
Back when you could potentially turn the GPU cycles into some cash via crypto it made sense, but it's same as running a space heater.
Jake123194 t1_j461v8l wrote
Nowadays you could run folding at home and set it up so you earn some banano, Contribute to science, heat your house and get much potassium.
pdinc t1_j447dqy wrote
This is what I did, heh
Chuckdatass t1_j42zsui wrote
Shit with Gas prices going up 200% in SoCal, I might just rely on that
5kyl3r t1_j42d5e2 wrote
not sure why someone downvoted you, it's a fact
bplturner t1_j44aibs wrote
Large data centers recover the heat and use them for preheating.
Yukondano2 t1_j464auf wrote
Preheating? Not familiar with that in this context. I see articles on using heat for the office but, what needs to be pre heated?
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NormanPeterson t1_j41xgda wrote
You could probably even sell the excess heat back to the gas company.
Wait nobody do that idea. Then we’ll run into a shortage/hoarding again..
403Verboten t1_j44yc0s wrote
Linus from Linus tech is heating his pool with cpu heat so it's definitely possible.
im_thatoneguy t1_j455uas wrote
Even with the crypto crash I paid for all of my heating electricity last year with the Bitcoin mined.
dynamic424 t1_j44lmv1 wrote
honestly, if we could make this a thing, why buy a 2000 home heater, when you can just buy a top of the line PC, and pipe it through your house.
namesarenotus t1_j44n1wj wrote
Now we are getting somewhere. I like where your heads at.
Unicorn_puke t1_j44zklh wrote
You joke. I saw someone promoting a bit mining rig that was also a room heater. Like legitimately designed to do those tasks
namesarenotus t1_j455xsu wrote
Uh no joke man. This is the internet, we are never joking.
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throwaway1point1 t1_j42vhpu wrote
Keep it in a server room and use a heat pump to cool it in the summer. Just open the door to heta the house in winter.
pdinc t1_j447cn2 wrote
How to get your CPU hot and bothered
cyrixlord t1_j44dutd wrote
It WiLl HavE An Air CooLeD SolUtIon
nitrohigito t1_j44pxm3 wrote
Sounds suspect, even my 13600K goes up to 230+ watts under P95, according to hwmon.
Zenith251 t1_j45e2z4 wrote
250w? No, my friend. 295w for the 13900K. The 7950x eats up about 250w.
james2432 t1_j45lmam wrote
only missing 1250w to pull as much as a space heater/ hair dryer
Lord-Sprinkles t1_j46xfr5 wrote
I know you’re joking but when my partner and I are cold in our room, I literally sometimes decide to start gaming or making AI images to run in the background so the room heats up. It will go from 65 to 80 in about an hour or 2. Not even joking I use my PC as a heater sometimes
Loocsiyaj t1_j477q3p wrote
You joke but I heat my room with my setup
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